Show TRAFFIC IN HrADS j Ilcturcaqno Fprcimv iTVli Tir Ono < I I Artti Id I or I 0 > In tho gallery tiN hum mi h-um which Is deviated to et1Ir1 specimens there nro four wJ Maori heads Iho tatt > lone l-one to the extreme left la bfl design and perfectly executed escellent speciinun of fni Inl mn aS practiced In Now Zealand It mus have belonged to some chief of long pedigree ped-igree and was no doubt onco an honored hon-ored relic Another of these heads tho second from the right Is ot n different character charac-ter Its owner was undoubtedly hastily hasti-ly tattooed and Main Compare the Ugly shapeless sctawla Upon tho left check with tho graceful markings on tho nobler head The pigment used must also have been very poor and It was evidently applied in the most olov enly way In many places tho flesh has not retained tho color and the cuts caused by the tattooing Instruments could not have been properly healed before the unlucky creature was done to death For a long time tho Maoris made these heads a very profitable article of traffic with Europeans but finally ttio enormity of this trade was made palpx ble to the lagging nuthotltles aud In 1831 tIme governor Sydney iumed a proclamation which had tho eCoot of TATTOOED HEADS IN THE BRITISH JJff SCUM suppressing this scandalous traffic In what was liltloless than human lives Ono may bv nn easy suiucnco 01 events as has been shown trace the I dust of Alexander till they fiud it stopping stop-ping a bung hole but nnroly tho most 1 fruitful imagination unless assisted aa lu this instance by truth could never itota possibly conceived anything so growsotncly grotesque tho idea of tim head of homo illustrious New Zealand warrior of yore who had in life reJoiced re-Joiced in some such nwcinspiringaname as Matutaera To 1uUcpuUo To Iaino Tu Karate TcaPotatau To Whcreo where Tawhias oteNgatitnahuta being be-ing toward the middle century hawked about tho streets of Sydney in a dirty old colored handkerchief |